Saturday, 23 November 2013

Yesterday afternoon I had layout digital painting tutorial by Katie Fomina. I was really enthusiastic tolearn new secrets in this subject, both for digital panting and layout. Thanks Katie!We had to take with us a drawing from life of any layout and a picture reference to pick up the tonality. So, these are my pictures from my room:

After all afternoon (about 3h) this is my final digital painting version:

This week we had a workshop with the Character Designer Gillian Reid. It was such fun!She started by explaining how she usually worked and asked us to do the same: we had to imagine a character and his hobby.Here is my old grumpy granny with a secret passion for DJing and electronic music!Firstly, we had to make different shapes trying to go over the stereotypes:

After we found the shape we prefered, we had to draw different rough positions of our character without going into too much detail:

Later we had to do the same with the head and the expressions, going more in details:

This is the result of the few hours of workshop with Gillian and I enjoy it so much. After a morning like this, how can you stop drawing? Such fun... So, I just drew few more pictures before my wrist "told me" to stop.

Thursday, 8 August 2013

Few weeks ago I finished another sketchbook and these sketches are a few from the last pages. Summer in Italy is getting really hot and so, i passed a lot of afternoon at home under in the shade and that little bit of cool. I passed more time looking to new amazing artists in the web and try to learn from them rather than keep drawing. As I said, i finished my last sketchbook and i still didn't find a new one. I have to do it soon...

Coming back in Italy I also met again some close friend and one of this I used often to draw her portraits. Like this one:

Monday, 3 June 2013

This is my last uni work for this year! yes, I already finished a year: where the hell is it gone?? Time passes really fast when you enjoy it.

This part of the project was to invent the work-room of an "artist" of our choice. In the end, I chose a botanist/explorer who lives in a tree house in the jungle. The clean up, the b&w tonal and the colour section took me one complete day and a night ( yes, I didn't sleep at all!). I am not used to do layouts and color them, especially in Photoshop, but I had quite some fun making them. I think I will use photoshop+tablet again.

Saturday, 1 June 2013

This is a smoke effect animation I did for one of the 3rd year projects. I used this amazing video vimeo.com/35850069as reference. Ittook me one week to understand it and elaborate a first rough animation, which I then cleaned up.I can't wait to see it coloured and embedded in the project :).

Monday, 6 May 2013

I have never done layouts before because I used to draw more the human figure, but I quite enjoyed drawing them. In the beginning I found it hard and boring, but soon it became easier. I tried to change media and to colour them in Photoshop and it was interesting. Maybe I found my new aim!

Uni is getting really hard especially because this is the last month (already!!!). In the end of it I will show you why I am so busy... and I hope to find more free time to do my personal works. It is something that I really miss doing!

These are copies from real life, the majority of and from my room and house in England.

About Me

Hello there! I'm Alice, welcome to my blog. Graduated in 2015 in Animation Production at Arts University Bournemouth (UK), I currently work as Assistant Animator at Lupus Films, in London. Drawing is my life and, aside animation, I love sketching and painting: my art takes me to see new places and meet new people and I hope I will continue in this way. People inspire me and I want to inspire you back.